Architecture
Madisen Maher Architects added J.D. Henning as architectural technician. He has 10 years of drafting experience. Henning previously held a technical architectural position with MSI General.
Milwaukee-based Continuum Architects + Planners S.C. has added associate Wes Brice and architects Heather Wogsland and Conlynn Goetsch.
Banking & Finance
Michael Shlensky has been appointed senior vice president – Retirement Plan Services Manager at Johnson Bank. Shlensky will be located at Johnson Bank’s headquarters in Racine. He will be responsible for strategic growth and development of the retirement plan services business. Shlensky comes to Johnson Bank with more than 30 years of experience in retirement and institutional trust services. Johnson Bank has also named Kurt Beronja senior vice president – Financial Planning Practice Manager. Beronja will be located at Johnson Bank’s headquarters in Racine and will be responsible for Corporate Financial Planning. He will also work closely with Johnson Investment Services. He has 29 years of experience in financial services. Additionally, Johnson Bank has promoted Thomas Mahoney to director of mortgage banking for the bank throughout Wisconsin and Arizona. Mahoney has more than 30 years of experience in financial services and has worked for Johnson Bank since 1995. Prior to his promotion, he worked as regional president, Racine and Kenosha, for more than 15 years.
Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. has added Brian Nethery as senior vice president, financial advisor to its Mequon wealth management office. Nethery has more than 15 years of financial services experience. Prior to joining Baird, he worked as an investment executive for Stifel for eight years.
Associated Bank has hired Michael Burow as senior vice president, audit director, Regulatory Compliance, in Milwaukee. Burow previously was senior vice president, Risk Management and Internal Audit, at Guaranty Bank. In his new position, he will handle management and oversight of the enterprise-wide regulatory compliance audit program, including consumer compliance, operations compliance, AML/BSA compliance, and mortgage lending and servicing functions. Associated Bank has also promoted Kevin Zerman to senior vice president, director of consumer and commercial banking. Zerman has 20 years of project management experience specific to engineering, information technology and marketing. In his elevated role, he will guide a team of project managers who focus on IT-related residential lending, payments and direct channels, branch banking, commercial banking, and strategy and support projects. He will work to cultivate the talent of the project management team and head IT project portfolio prioritization within the Consumer and Commercial Banking division.
Charter Capital Management Inc. of Wauwatosa has welcomed Chris Beidel to its Retirement Plan Advisory Services Division. Beidel will work to provide complete retirement plan advisory services to small and mid-sized businesses in the region.
Building & Construction
Dan Koutecky of Waukesha-based Floorcare USA Inc. has been promoted to technical sales. Koutecky is a 14-year veteran of the painting and concrete coating industry, having spent the last 12 years with Floorcare USA in various roles with the installation team. In his new technical sales role, Koutecky will help clients make the right decisions for their industrial and decorative concrete flooring needs.
Consulting
Addison-Clifton LLC, headquartered in Brookfield, has hired Roger Rangarajan as a senior advisor in its Trade Compliance and Asia Market Services groups. Rangarajan has more than 30 years of experience in product integrity engineering.
Education
Scott Rudie has been named the new senior director for university marketing and communications at Mount Mary University, located in Milwaukee. Rudie’s responsibilities include managing the university’s Marketing and Communications team, developing strategic communications and marketing programs to build the university’s image regionally, and providing project management leadership in the development and implementation of brand imaging and overall communications. Rudie has more than 17 years of experience. His background in higher education marketing and communications includes senior leadership positions at Moraine Park Technical College and Cardinal Stritch University. He brings expertise in messaging, branding, creative direction and project management.
Milwaukee School of Engineering has named Jo Smith director of financial services.
Engineering
Lynch & Associates-Engineering Consultants LLC has added Michael Doble to its New Berlin office as director of land development. Doble is a registered professional civil engineer and has more than 20 years of experience in site development, subdivision consulting and building design. In his new role, he will oversee a team of project planners, surveyors, project engineers and drafting technicians.
Environmental
Menomonee Falls-based EnSync Inc. has appointed Jim Schott chief financial offer. Schott has experience in accounting, finance, and investor and analyst relations. He also has operations experience with energy companies, including WEC Energy Group and Integrys Energy Group. Prior to joining EnSync, Schott worked as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Integrys Energy Group. In his new position, he will head the company’s finance and accounting activities and will also run its investor relations function. EnSync has also appointed Rick Whisman vice president, sales. Whisman has spent much of his career working in solar project development. Prior to his appointment at EnSync, he launched Sol Patch Resources, a California-based solar project development company.
Health Care
Rogers Memorial Hospital-West Allis has named Dr. Khazi Muqeet medical director. In this leadership capacity, Muqeet will oversee clinical services facilitated at the West Allis site and the partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs at Rogers’ Kenosha site. Muqeet is board certified in adult and forensic psychiatry and largely focuses on treating major mental illnesses and addiction. He completed bachelor degrees in medicine and surgery from the Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences in India. He completed a psychiatry residency and fellowship in forensic psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he also served as chief resident. Additionally, Muqeet fulfilled a second residency program and worked as chief resident in the North Wales Psychiatry residence program in the United Kingdom.
Legal Services
Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. has added Leslie Gutierrez to its Litigation Practice Group. Gutierrez is an attorney in the Milwaukee office of WHD, where she is a member of the Business & Commercial Litigation, Trust, Estate & Fiduciary Litigation, and Construction Services teams.
Manufacturing
TLX Technologies LLC, of Pewaukee, has promoted Jessica Madsen to quality assistant. In this position, Madsen will assist in the inventory and quality control of incoming material and parts. The company also promoted Boyd Schindler to head up the engineering department. In his new role, Schindler will lead the team of design and manufacturing engineers as they develop custom actuators and valves for the automotive and industrial markets.
Nonprofit
The American Lung Association in Wisconsin, located in Brookfield, has promoted four staff members. The organization recently promoted Katie Halverson to manager, tobacco control and lung health; Renee Mallo to manager, tobacco control, FACT Movement; Deborah Grayson to manager, smoke free multi-unit housing; and Keri Schneider to senior manager, tobacco control.
